Donald Byrd’s 1974’s jazz-funk fusion classic ‘Stepping Into Tomorrow’ returns on vinyl on July 18 through Blue Note’s ...

Craft Recordings’ Miles ’55: The Prestige Recordings picks up where Miles ’54 left off, spotlighting sessions from the year Miles Davis found his footing as a bandleader. As Ashley Kahn notes, the ...

Would it be enhanced on vinyl, revealing hidden depths ... Bley performed with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, and Sonny Rollins, yet his true sound was set in motion when he performed ...

I feel an intense purpose of bringing people together through music, and that’s all I can hope for.” There aren’t many quotes ...

During high school he played in a band with Kenny Drew, Sonny Rollins, and Andy Kirk Jr. (the tenor saxophonist ... reissue label Mosaic Records back in 1983. From its inception, vinyl was still the ...

Growing up in 1940s Harlem, Sonny Rollins idolized swing-era heavyweights like Coleman Hawkins and jump-blues saxophonists like Louis Jordan. But when he heard Charlie Parker and the torrid ...

Al Foster, whose superbly alert and flexible drumming formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years, propelling bands led by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and many others ...

Al Foster, whose superbly alert and flexible drumming formed a swirling current in modern jazz for more than 60 years, propelling bands led by Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and many others, died on ...